[LINK] Everybody wants to rule the Web

[Jan Whitaker]

Agreed that this is an article worth reading!  I had a look at it and it 
couches some of the concerns about jurisdiction in a summary sort of way, 
but more extensive than just 'you can't tell me what to do here' 
language.  It also points out the business concerns that companies like 
Yahoo and others that are in multiple countries now physically need to 
consider.  If anyone has studied International Business [what it was called 
before 'global'], they will click with what this article is saying about 
jurisdictional compliance.  That's one of the reasons that int'l business 
has been seen as risky from the US perspective:  the differences in legal 
environments were often difficult to manage for - stability and the term 
'certainty' are critical for int'l investment.  And that's why laws such as 
the BSA here can be such a worry for int'l investment.  It's not good to be 
the 'joke of the internet'.

Jan

At 11:33 AM 19/01/01 +1100, David Goldstein wrote:
>Hi all
>
>This article is a very interesting look at the extension of laws
>dealing with cyberspace outside a country's own borders.
>
>Cheers
>David
>
>Everybody wants to rule the Web
>
>MICHAEL GEIST
>
>Thursday, January 18, 2001
>
>
>Few cyberlaw cases have sparked as large an outcry as the recent
>Yahoo France case, in which a French judge ordered the company to
>block access to Nazi memorabilia offered in its auctions within
>France.
>[snip]
>See
>http://www.globetechnology.com/archive/gam/E-Business/20010118/TWGEIS.html
>for the full article.
>
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